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Suspiciously Stealthy Predator
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The flip side to Super-Persistent Predator, this is what happens when a dangerous creature with the intellect and mindset of a wild animal, which has no business knowing what closed-circuit cameras, firearms, vehicles or other man-made devices are, nevertheless avoids these objects like the plague or takes steps to neutralize them. This guarantees that the heroes who report it to the authorities will never be believed, as no photographic evidence exists to document its presence. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The creature will know not to leave tracks, claw tree bark, or dump a load where it might be found, save by a master tracker who's escorting the heroes. Likewise, this trope ensures that the creature will consistently find unarmed victims (usually confirmed jerkasses or lone sexy females) to prey upon, even as the armed hunters, police, and/or soldiers scouring the woods for the mysterious threat walk right by without noticing. In extreme cases, the creature might slip right by dozens of potential witnesses by sheer luck. Often used to maintain a Monster Delay, both in and out of Verse. Sometimes clumsily justified as the creature disliking the smell of weapons or machinery, although it'll always lose that aversion in time for a climactic battle with the heroes. If this goes on long enough, viewers and/or characters may eventually deduce that It Can Think. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Well known to be Truth in Television for species known to be ambush predators, such as Crocodilians (who can hide underwater until well within lunging distance) and sharks (whose breaches out of the water are often the only warning of an iminent shark attack). Examples: |
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As documented in Fortean Times, this is a maddening trait of the Alien Big Cats long speculated to be living clandestine lives in the British countryside, which are glimpsed, which leave identifiable dung, make paw prints, rend sheep and lambs leaving unambiguous proof some sort of large predator is out there - but which manage to avoid traps, know not to walk in front of CCTV, can sniff out hidden cameras and evade pursuit even on the fringes of large cities. | |
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The Xenomorphs from the Alien franchise are very smart. They can cut electrical power, sneak past defenses using ducts, lay traps using bait, and sneak aboard ships to be exported to other locations without the crew knowing before it's too late. It seems they are at least as intelligent as humans, but driven entirely by instinct mainly to kill, but if a queen is around to lay eggs they will capture targets alive instead. When alone, a single Xenomorph will hunt and stalk its prey with cautious and carefully-planned cunning, doing everything in its power to stay alive until every other living thing in the area has been killed. When in a group or with a colony, aliens will use Zerg Rush tactics when possible and make sacrifices to make sure their brethren can get a good shot at their prey. In a similar vein, in Alien: Resurrection several Xenomorphs are locked in a cell. They slaughter one of their own so its acidic blood will melt through the floor and let them escape. In one proposed ending for the first film which was never used, it would have been revealed that the Xenomorphs can mimic human voices....to communicate over a radio transmission and lure more humans to find the Nostromo. Yes, they were almost sentient. |
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Jurassic World uses this quite absurdly. The Indominus Rex, who has spent her entire life in one cage, claws at the wall of her enclosure to make her handlers believe she might have managed to scale it, uses her ability to control her body temperature to foil their heat scanners, and hides until they open the big door so she can get out. Then she claws out the tracking device they implanted her with when she was born, and uses her camouflage ability to get the drop on the retrieval team. In case you were thinking there was some history of her working this stuff out, her previous escape attempt consisted of bashing her head against the enclosure window. | |
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Deep Blue Sea: One of the first things the super-intelligent mako sharks do that proves their intelligence is when they take out all the cameras in their pen so they can't be tracked, despite there being no reason why they would even understand a technology like that or ability to communicate it to each other. | |
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In Alligator, the gator always retreats to the sewers unseen after its nightly hunts, rather than staying outside to bask in the sun as any real alligator would. | |
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King Cobra (1999): After Seth escapes from his confinement, it takes two years for the giant snake to get on anyone's radar. He was actually much smaller initially, and grew bigger after feeding on woodland animals. Throughout the rest of the film, it has a rather frightening talent for creeping up on people without them even noticing before it's too late. | |
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For brainless corpses that shouldn't have a clue how to be sneaky, walkers on The Walking Dead are remarkably good at lurching past sentries right when the humans' attention is distracted. | |
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One would think that somebody in Snakes on a Plane would've immediately noticed the arrival of hundreds of venomous serpents in the passenger cabin, but it takes so long that they infiltrate every inch of the aircraft and even the purse a woman is holding before anyone catches wise. This is especially jarring, given how many of the snakes are brightly-colored and would want bigger animals such as humans to spot this warning-coloration and keep away, so have no particular reason to hide. | |
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Tremors 2: Aftershocks subverts this. Earl and Grady have a major Oh, Crap! moment at how smart the Graboid hatchlings seem to be after they destroy a running car engine to block any escape and take out the radio tower so they can't call for help. Then someone observes that their rudimentary vision is based on heat signatures, and they only went after the car and the tower because both were putting off heat. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire has Ser Barristan Selmy get the chills when he starts totting up the tactics Daenarys' dragons use both in hunting and fighting. Because the traditional "take down a boar or bull" approach most fighters or knights would use (and even tried to use, historically) could only ever work to deliver dinner to the dragon. And, in the specific case of Rhaegal, he even suspects It Can Think. | |
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The Graboids in Tremors. Justified since they live and hunt underground and are therefore invisible to most tracking techniques. | |
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Tremors movies: The Graboids in Tremors. Justified since they live and hunt underground and are therefore invisible to most tracking techniques. Tremors 2: Aftershocks subverts this. Earl and Grady have a major Oh, Crap! moment at how smart the Graboid hatchlings seem to be after they destroy a running car engine to block any escape and take out the radio tower so they can't call for help. Then someone observes that their rudimentary vision is based on heat signatures, and they only went after the car and the tower because both were putting off heat. |
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The first American remake of Godzilla (1998) has the titular monster somehow being able to hide in the middle of New York City. Quickly revealed to be because it uses the City's subway systems to burrow around Manhattan Island. | |
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In a similar vein, in Alien: Resurrection several Xenomorphs are locked in a cell. They slaughter one of their own so its acidic blood will melt through the floor and let them escape. | |
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Seems to apply to most of the creatures on Primeval, even the ones that otherwise act incredibly stupid due to low brain/body ratios. | |
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